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Survey Spring 2016
1.
Is your organization an ESIP member?
Yes
No
2.
How would you classify your organization? (Pick one)
Data providence (ESIP Type 1)
Researcher that uses data (ESIP Type 2)
Application developer (ESIP Type 3)
Educator (K-16) (ESIP Type 3)
ESIP sponsor (ESIP Type 4)
Other (please describe)
3.
How would you describe ESIP to someone who's not familiar with it? What is ESIP best known for? How would you characterize its reputation?
4.
How do you interact with ESIP? (Please check all that apply.)
Attend in-person ESIP meetings
Attend ESIP-supported/organized workshops
Attend Ignite@AGU
Participate in collaboration area monthly telecons
Subscribe to collaboration area listservs
Subscribe to Monday Update
Testbed Funded Project
FUNding Friday Winner
Student Fellow
Lead an ESIP collaboration area
Lead sessions at ESIP meetings
Present poster or talk at ESIP meetings
Follow on social media (Facebook or Twitter)
I don't interact with ESIP
Other (please describe)
5.
Why have you and/or your institution chosen to be part of ESIP? What value do you receive from being part of ESIP?
6.
Is your organization supportive of your involvement in ESIP?
Yes
No
7.
Why or why not? How do you justify the time you spend participating in ESIP activities?
8.
How do you perceive your organization's role within ESIP?
9.
What could be working more effectively at ESIP? Are there any obstacles to your participation? Is there anything that's not working at all?
10.
Where has ESIP had an significant and lasting impact?
11.
On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate ESIP’s overall impact and effectiveness in the following areas? (1 being not very effective or impactful, 5 being highly effective and impactful)
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Increasing the use and value of Earth science data and information
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Strengthening the ties between observations and user communities (e.g. technologies, research, education and applications)
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Promoting techniques to articulate and measure the socioeconomic value and benefit of Earth science data, information and applications.
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Positioning ESIP to play a major role in Earth science issues (e.g. addressing effects of climate change mitigation
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Bringing like-minded individuals and organizations together during annual meetings;
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Communicating Earth Science Information needs and progress to the broader community
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Creating and promoting community best practices
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Feel free to add any comments.
12.
On a scale of 1 to 5, how strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements? (1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree)
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
ESIP online platform is user friendly (esipfed.org, wiki.esipfed.org, testbed.esipfed.org and commons.esipfed.org)
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
It is easy for me to find and share content on the ESIP platform
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Communications from staff to community meets my needs
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Communication methods between community are adequate
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Staff support of my work within ESIP is sufficient
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Meetings (dates, locations, themes) are productive
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Collaborative group structures support the work I want to do
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Membership process is clear and benefits are obvious for joining
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Microfunding through Testbed, FUNding Friday or ESIP Committees and Working Groups is efficient
1
2
3
4
5
N/A
Feel free to add any comments.
13.
What new services would you like to see offered by ESIP?
14.
If you could give one piece of advice to ESIP’s leadership, what would it be?
